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Thanks for the encouraging words guys...
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I began painting the ecorche of the gorilla today as well...
Posted a proportions model I did a while back. Shows a 8 head scale...
Unfortunately my facial anatomy work is on a Mac drive and I switched to PC since then...
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Will start the FaceRobot solve once I get all of this down...
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I'll be straight......without any gloss.....
Portraits of people are hard -hands down. There's no getting away from that fact regardless of how well you know them or how much reference you have either. I've been there and am still doing it.
Before even attempting half of what you are, stop, sit back and have a good look.
I think you need to seriously tweak that head mesh, the ears are so out of place, and the thickness of the eye lids is too much. the outside of the lids you have there looks like the eyes are too far back or pushed too much toward the center of the head....theres lots of dark there, looks like a 20mm thick eyelid. If you could post an image of your Dad side by side with this then it would be good to get a better comparison.
You spoke of proportions and all that talk earlier in the post....so use that knowledge and apply it. At the moment I'm not seeing it.
Lighting wise -'GI off an HDRI sphere'. Forget it - It doesnt matter right now, you need to see what needs fixing before adding the technical problems of GI, FG, VRAY,Mental Ray or whatever. As its all irrelevant when something isn't correct. The fact is you can throw all the bells and whistles of any 3d package at this but if its not right....
I have never seen a pic of your Dad but I'll put money on the fact this isn't close -possibly a resemblance but not close. I could be wrong......
So as a piece of advice, keep it simple until its 'there' or as near as yo can get it. Then build it up. Attempting photoreal images are hard as I said, and people like me will see the probs.
I could bang on for ages about this and that but I think its just necessary to be honest and point this stuff out so you dont become completely blinded by the nicer comments in the post.
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I agree with you that it is not photoreal by any standard. The skin is somewhat too clean and plastic-like but that is the SSS of C4D in some ways. I actually never wanted photoreal because of the whole animation thing. If you get hyperreal you get burned when trying to make them talk. I am happy with something close to the standard of pixar quality but good enough to execute in FaceRobot with my mocap system. Kind of my testing grounds for a bust. Since I have never actually created one before this to a certain likeness. Only been at the 3d game for a little over a year and a half. Gotta keep pushin...
There are many things that need fixing. I agree whole-heartedly with everything that you posted Jay. A work in progress. I have neglected the ears since the beginning but will get to those in the next couple of days. The eyes are weak in my opinion as well. Would kill for my 5D out in LA right now to shoot a "longer" shot but this point and shoot will have to do...
Attached is a frontal side-by-side of my dad. Since the lens is pretty wide and ZBrush isn't I can't really go off of the wrap because of the "barreling" the point and shoot creates....
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Will also be redefining the topo once again so that I can exploit the wrinkle maps and tendon maps as well. Gonna film my dad doin the FACS system to get a better idea of the edgeflow required...
Below the FR pic is the base untouched. Only thing it is missing is the mouth bag which I did after rendering that out. Sockets are created in FR procedurally.
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